BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A prominent Shiite tribal leader who is a member of Iraq's National Assembly has been killed in a suicide bomb attack in northern Baghdad, police said.

Sheikh Dhari Ali Al-Fayadh, three of his bodyguards and his son were killed Tuesday morning when a suicide car bomber slammed into his convoy in the neighborhood of Rashdiya, police said.

He is the second member of Iraq's parliament to be assassinated since the Shiite and Kurdish-led government took office two months ago.

Also on Tuesday, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a security post outside the main entrance to Musayab General Hospital, killing an Iraqi policeman and wounding 17 people.

Two Task Force Liberty soldiers died in attacks Tuesday north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. One was killed in a suicide car bomb near Balad and the second was killed in a vehicle bombing west of Tikrit. The attacks bring the U.S. death toll to 1,741.

Insurgent gunmen killed nine people in a string of drive-by shootings, including four police officers and two firefighters. A prominent city council member from the western Baghdad neighborhood of Khadra also was killed.

Gunmen also killed a policeman and an interpreter Tuesday afternoon in western Baghdad's Yarmouk Square, emergency police told CNN.

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